Music As Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages

Edited by Reinhard Strohm and Bonnie J. Blackburn

The book covers areas missing in other histories of medieval music such as Andalusian slave-girls, Bohemian brotherhoods, Minstrels' guilds, microtones, chant composers, Jewish philosophers, and cemetery dances

It is written by dedicated scholarly researchers each of whom has an established reputation in international musicology.

Music As Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages

Edited by Reinhard Strohm and Bonnie J. Blackburn

Description

This entirely new volume of NOHM takes account of developments in late-medieval music scholarship, along with significant changes in the performance practice of the late-medieval repertory, witnessed during the latter half of the 20th century.

Music As Concept and Practice in the Late Middle Ages

Edited by Reinhard Strohm and Bonnie J. Blackburn

Author Information

Reinhard Strohm, D.Phil., TU Berlin 1971, co-editor, Richard-Wagner Gesamtausgabe, 1970-1982; Lecturer in Music, King's College, University of London, 1975-1983; Professor of Music History, Yale University, 1983-1990; Reader, then Professor of Historical Musicology, King's College London, 1990-1996; Heather Professor of Music, Oxford University, 1996- Bonnie Jean Blackburn, D.Phil, University of Chicago; American musicologist who has studied with Edward Lowinsky and Howard Mayer Brown; Lecturer at the School of Music, Northwestern University; Visiting faculty member at both the University of Chicago, 1986, and SUNY, Buffalo, 1989-90; moved to Oxford in 1991and became a freelance editor; general editor of the series Monuments of Renaissance Music.